Facebook BGP 'removed' from internet. Coincidence?
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Going long $FB so that when it comes back up my disappointment will be blunted with cash that I will use to buy silver.
Oh please be a something-burger.
By the morning we'll have a better idea, but I'm kind of expecting another event of some kind.
reminded me of what JM put out:
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That is a major thing and no accident.
Yeah. Not to mention that there is never just one transit gateway in place, especially for a company like FB. They very likely had several interfaces in place with redundant fail-overs to lower capacity hardware.
An event like this, where ALL of their connections are down simultaneously isn't just a major event; it's a HUGE event. This kind of thing should NEVER happen.
I started out in '95 for tier 1 isp's, and I agree, this is huge.
I'm in the industry. I work with cloud architecture specifically and work with these transit links all the time. Never seen an outage anything like this FB one.
Back in the 90's when we had routing storms we regularly had 2-4 hour outages ( back when we had a whole 2 MB between UK and US!).
I worked out how I would take the internet down and it all focussed on BGP and peering points, but I've never seen it done (beyond the odd redirect to China).
This is definitely a milestone and a new chapter. It's definitely state level actors.
Is this White Hat, Black Hat, neither or nobody knows? Signed not a computer guy...,...........
I'm trying to work it out. Everyone has been predicting it, they're all capable of it.
However, it is such a serious attack, and if it takes the whole net down, my money is on the white hats.
Time will tell.